Ugly (UK) “In Samphedoo” Ugly (UK) are very polished, precise, and mannered in ways that don’t often overlap, which means they often sound sorta like modern musical theater crafted by people obsessed with American Football and Radiohead’s In Rainbows. The results are intriguing – moments that feel achingly sincere coming in songs that also seem prickly and evasive, lyrics that resist narrative yet hit the ear like a sung-through show. They’re at their best when the contradiction is essential to…

Joel David Hamkins and Atticus Stonestrom, “The pattern of consistency strength for membership in a computably enumerable set,” preprint. arxiv:2610.24919. Abstract. Every computable preorder relation on the natural numbers is the order of consistency strength for the membership assertions “$n\in … Continue reading →

Remember that death is the best form of reinforcement learning. A scenario where mutable rogue software exists, and 99.9% of it is successfully caught, is one where we’re guaranteed to get highly capable, persistent software pests in short order. These pests will learn to evade whatever controls we or our AI masters try to impose on them. And it’s not clear that AI, even assuming superhuman coding ability, will be smart enough to defeat them. FROM: Idle Words Cloud Rats and Software Roaches…

Techy or Not. Really been enjoying this new channel on YouTube. Short videos, giving me the latest tech news. No fluff.

Among the myriad live performance channels on YouTube, Roulette’s consistently presents some of the most interesting sets from the world of out music, and part of the reason the offerings are so great is because the venue’s broadcasting predates YouTube itself. The NYC venue was archiving and promoting the material long before doing so became standard operating procedure. I occasionally highlight Roulette’s current videos, like one featuring BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran, and Marcus Gilmore, as well…

Vagrant has long had a hosted service for boxes. 2014’s v1.5 release announcement contains the earliest reference I could find, and not long after in early 2015, I’d created a Ruby client in atlas-ruby (I don’t recall if it was originally publicly called Atlas at the time, or it was just the general domain which was being used and I named the gem accordingly). By 2017 this had fully become HashiCorp Vagrant Cloud, and now it’s part of their wider hosted products and called HCP Vagrant. But I’ve…

I would be remiss if I didn't watch some more psychic-phenomena movies. And Eternal Evil, aka The Blue Man, lets me dip into some Astral Projection and Reincarnation. I just wish it had been a little better. Eternal Evil / The Blue Man (1985)Paul Sharpe is a successful director of television commercials living in Montreal with his wife and son. He has a nice house, a good job, and what appears to be a comfortable life. He is also deeply dissatisfied with all of it. He is married and has a…

I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy "Guild of Writers" Deluxe Collection. These are the three Myst novels originally published 1995-1997, "by Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove". (But, everybody understands, really written by David Wingrove -- then a new and modestly successful SF writer -- based on story ideas and concepts by the Millers.) The paper editions have been out of print since the…

A knife, a fork, a bottle, and a cork. That’s the way you spell New York. — DILLINGER – Cocaine In My Brain (1978) – YouTube

Contrastive losses built on PyTorch, JAX, or even NCCL and NVSHMEM directly leave much of the hardware on the table. Want 5x larger batches at 2x lower latency, with collectives designed for CUDA-graph replay? Get ready to write some PTX!

I see some cool use cases that app developers are coming up with for the iPhone Duo. Genuinely I think the form factor has some real good practical potential, but I just don't want a phone that wide when it's folded. I already miss small iPhones.

It seems every year, the price of domain names increases. Michael recently blogged Domains Cost More, Blogs Disappear, and not three weeks later I got my increase email from NameCheap. On November 1, 2026, the registry responsible for .com domains will increase its prices across the industry. Pricing for registrations, transfers, and renewals will all be affected. My renewal price will be $19.98, which breaks down to $1.67 a month, which isn't bad. I mean, I blow a lot more money on stupid…

Though the NYFF reviews may continue to pervade our page like an invasive species that just won't quit and go away, it's time to give a proper ending to the longest TIFF coverage we've ever done at The Film Experience. Though all good things must come to an end, it need not be a bitter one. So, let's go out on a fun note, with Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese back for the third and final part of their Jury of Two chat. Diego Calva's hot social worker from CLUB KID welcomes you to the end of our…

A bit cool today when the sun was not out but still a pretty good day. Martha and I drove the Honda CRV down Colorado highway 67 towards the town of Victor, Colorado. Back during the Gold Rush days, this town was a booming area with gold miners trying their luck in the nearby hills. But we were looking for a troll named Rita. There's a short trail starting from the American Eagles gold mine's location off of highway 67. Some pretty impressive infrastructure remains of the gold mine, you can see…

Perfume PosseL’Amour Mere Natalie, Lyublyu and C Love L’Amour Mere is a project that was created by actress Natasha Gregson Wagner in memory of her mother, Natalie Wood. Now I have been a fan of both for years so I purchased the set of samples and promptly let… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseL’Amour Mere Natalie, Lyublyu and C Love

I had a bizarre exchange today that, in more normal and simpler times, I would’ve ranked a nothing-burger—a weird white guy being weird. However, we are living in the era of frozen water agents in our communities across the country and in Maine, they are still here daily, terrorizing and kidnapping people. But let me ... Read more The post Weirdo or “frozen water” man? A strange encounter appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

20 Lounge | INDEX | 22 Beacon Anyone who will do this for me when needed more than deserves to be called a hero! A note to non-Australian residents: the truth is we don’t see these guys as often as you think we do. All the ones that won’t kill you are completely harmless. Aussies love to tease the rest of the world about the wild, wild world of nature we live in, when the encounters are actually relatively rare. Depending on where you live. And whether you have several funnel-web colonies…

. Voirin press from 1890 – notice the shelves of lithographic stones If you find yourself in Mallorca, take a trip to Palma and the Taller 6A gallery in one of the ancient streets to the east of the city’s Santa María cathedral. It’s an artists’ studio complete with an electrified lithographic press made by J Voiron in Paris in 1890. The walls are lined with shelves of 700 litho stones painted with images of art, graphics and advertising. The Voirin presses were exported as far as Mexico, as…

Table of Contents Pico Pal Que Lee: You Only Have Yourself to Blame Chapa la Pachala: When the Insult Is Disguised Nepe: The Penis With a Disguise Why Literal Translation Can Be a Disaster So, What's the Point of All This? Pico pal que lee. If You Understood That, You're Already Part of the Problem. There's something special about Chilean humor. Imagine a completely normal and innocent conversation with whoever: your significant other, kid, pastor / priest / druid, milkman, concubine - just…

From software company Linear, a blog post from last year titled Why we committed to a zero-bugs policy: When we tell people that Linear maintains a zero-bug policy a common response is disbelief. It may sound like a ridiculous approach, but we do it because no other way makes sense. The zero-bug stance means that we address bugs immediately, with the exact number of days depending on the severity: low-priority bugs need to be addressed within 7 days, high-priority bugs within 2. We formalized…

Another workout done. Selfie a day for a year, day 52: Oct 20, 2026 edition.

The 6th Generation iPod Classic has been my go-to for analogue music playback. Whether it be background music, party shit, if it has a 3.5mm input jack you best believe the iPod’s getting shoved in there The thing is, ever since I got a Škoda Fabia MK2, It has found a full-time job at the AUX. Gone are the days of half-functioning Bluetooth adapters that fail on calls and CDs that chirp because of course the read head is trash. Before I rewired my AUX back into the stock headunit I had a…

I watched the first episode of the long-gestating and finally-released show, "Crystal Lake," on Peacock. All eight episodes actually dropped at once, but I've only had the chance to stream the debut. To say what I think 1/8 of the way through without spoilers...I really liked it! Linda Cardellini is fantastic as Pamela Voorhees, and Callum Vinson is superb as a young Jason (with lots of prosthetics). Also, compliments to Will Catlett as Sheriff Levon Brooks. I remembered his fantastic work as…

In my previous post, I mentioned that we would take a closer look at a small sample of 34 letters that Adam Smith signed in his official capacity as Commissioner of Scotland’s Board of Customs. The first piece of official correspondence in my sample is Letter #109, which is dated 16 September 1784 and is signed by three members of the Board of Customs: Basil Cochrane, Adam Smith, and James Edgar. In this letter, the Board instructs the Collector to account for a sum of money from a recent…

A few different smaller things I've been doing thanks to tips by others: The Iron Island B3F encounter table no longer shows swarm slots with Onix and Graveler instead of Steelix and Graveler in Platinum (those swarm entries were real in the game data, likely due to a copy-paste blunder, but Iron Island can't have swarms, so they are never actually active and showing them was confusing). A few FR/LG entries have been added on the In-Game Humour page (a page I have generally not been adding much…

Yes, I like this particular shade of blue. It can be the sky, it can be water, it can be a watery sky.

Just one recording today, which starts with the end of Escape from Scorpion Island. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Brazil. Steve meets one of the largest fish in the world, and gets head-butted for his trouble. He finds a Lancehead snake, apparently responsible for more deaths in the Americas than any other snake. In the forest he spots a patch of Processionary Caterpillars. He manages to catch a Red-Bellied Piranha. He goes fishing for some very carnivorous catfish, a Giant Candiru, with a big chunk of…

I got tired of trying to be Canadian. These days, I’m not even trying. The post Here or There, Who Cares? Canada and I Are Just Friends Now first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

I have 15 books on my small “To Read” bookshelf that have been sitting there for a while. Some of them I have had for years and still haven't read yet. I just ordered another book. I think I have a problem. I love to read. I probably do most of my reading online, these days, but I try to be intentional about sitting down with a book for a while. But it's either feast or famine with me. I go through stretches where I read several books in succession, then stretches where I'm not reading any…